Theme: Playing to Your Strengths

Every music professional has a core set of strengths—natural abilities, tendencies, and ways of working that, when understood, can become the foundation for both artistry and career growth. For our sixth issue, we’re inviting contributions that explore what it means to identify, develop, and apply strengths in the professional world of music.

We welcome a broad range of perspectives, including (but not limited to):

• Performance Practice: How knowing your professional strengths shapes the way you program, present, or sustain a performing career.
• Teaching & Mentorship: How educators and trainers adapt to students’ strengths, and how professionals build teaching careers that reflect their own.
• Collaboration & Leadership: How ensembles, organizations, and projects succeed when complementary strengths are recognized and aligned.
• Creative Work: How composers, arrangers, conductors, and creators lean on their professional strengths—whether in organization, innovation, or communication.
• Career Development: Practical ways music professionals can design roles or businesses around their strengths, from niche specialization to entrepreneurial ventures.
• Resilience & Reinvention: Stories where relying on strengths helped navigate setbacks, transitions, or burnout.
• Frameworks & Tools: How models like CliftonStrengths (Gallup) or other reflective tools can be applied in professional music contexts.

Submission Guidelines

• Length: 800–1500 words (exceptions possible by prior agreement)
• Formats: essays, case studies, interviews, reviews, or opinion pieces
• Tone: professional, clear, and accessible to music professionals and educators
• Not what we’re looking for: dense academic papers or highly ornamental literary writing. MusicaIQ is about bridging knowledge with practice.
• Editorial Policy: By submitting, authors agree that MusicaIQ retains the right to edit for clarity, tone, and alignment with our readership, while ensuring the author’s ideas remain accurate and respected.

Deadline: October 15, 2025

Please submit your proposal or draft to [email protected]